Movie Reviews
- Movie Review – Project Hail Mary (2026)
- Movie Review – Misgivings (2024)
- Movie Review – Hamnet (2025)
- Movie Review – Primate (2025)
- Classic Movie Review – Prospect (2018)
- Movie Review – Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025)
- Classic Movie Review – Saltburn (2023)
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Classic Movie Review – River’s Edge (1986)
Read more: Classic Movie Review – River’s Edge (1986)A strange movie based on a grim true story, starring some of the up and coming movie stars of the era, including Keanu Reeves in one of his first film roles. River’s Edge is about high school stoner Samson (played convincingly by Daniel Roebuck), who murders a female friend and shows his slacker friends what…
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Classic Movie Review – Thief (1981)
Read more: Classic Movie Review – Thief (1981)Made in the year of my birth, this interesting caper movie is Michael Mann’s directorial feature film debut. The Mann (sorry) who would go onto make Heat paves the way for the serious, violent crime movies that will dominate his filmography (he’s even working on Heat 2).
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Movie Review – Caught Stealing (2025)
Read more: Movie Review – Caught Stealing (2025)Directed by Darren Aronofsky, Caught Stealing is about the right balance of fun and chaos that you want in a popcorn movie. Interesting considering previous movies from the director have been quite dark and serious (list any – Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain, The Wrestler, Black Swan, Mother!). Despite leaning towards comedy, it is…
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Classic Movie Review – Near Dark (1987)
Read more: Classic Movie Review – Near Dark (1987)In her directorial debut, Katherine Bigelow (who has gone on to make many great movies, from Point Break to The Hurt Locker) takes on the ever-popular vampire movie genre. I read that she actually wanted to do a western but couldn’t get backing from studios so we end up here, with a part vampire, part…
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Movie Review – Frankenstein (2025)
Read more: Movie Review – Frankenstein (2025)Del Toro Brings the Gore and Sex Appeal Guillermo Del Toro seems to be in the doing-dream-projects phase of his filmography. After a varied career with some incredible fairytale-like stories alongside sci fi and fantasy films, he’s taking on the classics with Netflix. First came Pinocchio, now he’s had a go at Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein…
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Classic Movie Review – Innocent Bystanders (1972)
Read more: Classic Movie Review – Innocent Bystanders (1972)I can’t remember what led me to watch this movie but it may have been a conversation between Leonard Cohen and Paul Nelson in the book I Like People That Can’t Sing. Anyway, something made me do it, and despite not quite finding a consistent tone, it’s not a bad spy movie.
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Movie Review – Anaconda
Read more: Movie Review – AnacondaAt an outdoor cinema with some ominous clouds threatening to rain out the session, and a couple of kids tagging along (is it okay to bring a kids under ten to a movie like this? It was fine in the eighties, and this is much tamer in comparison to what we saw when we were…
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Movie Review – Marty Supreme
Read more: Movie Review – Marty SupremeAttending a midday session in the city I expected to be mostly alone. But Marty Supreme, probably through the appeal of Tim Chalamet to younger audiences, drew a reasonable crowd for what would normally be an oldies and weirdos-like-me session.